Our town is twinned with a loo! Kind-hearted community's great way to help quake-hit Nepal

A TOWN has “twinned” two of its public toilets with loos in Nepal.

The ‘twinned’ toilets in Nepal paid for by donations from Lancashire town

When Penwortham, in Lancashire's Ribble Valley, refurbished two of its public loos it also made donations to keep people in Nepal sitting comfortably.

The Himalayan state is struggling to recover from two major earthquakes this year. The council gave £60 for a public latrine in the Surkhet district of Nepal. Penwortham Free Methodist Church paid another £60 for a one in the capital Kathmandu.

Photos of the loos now hang in the Penwortham toilets.

Town manager Steve Caswell said: "By doing the work on the toilets we realised how lucky we are and how in this country we take things like running hot and cold running water for granted.

We chose to be twinned with toilets in Nepal after hearing on the news about the earthquakes which have devastated the country

Town manager Steve Caswell

“As a town council we fully support good ideas like this and I’m even going to do it at home.

“I’ve got a downstairs toilet that needs refurbishing, so when we do, I’ll make sure it’s twinned.”

“We had heard of the Toilet Twinning scheme for Third World countries.

“We chose to be twinned with toilets in Nepal after hearing on the news about the earthquakes which have devastated the country.”

The cash went to the charity Toilet Twinning, which says it aims to “flush away poverty”.

It aims to “provide people in the poorest communities on the planet with a decent toilet, clean water and all the information they need to stay healthy.”